Dances that Describe Themselves

"Foster elegantly and seamlessly integrates the Africanist improvisational aesthetic into her lively, detailed picture of Bull's world, realigning a landscape that has too long suffered from ethnocentric skew."—Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance

""Foster elegantly and seamlessly integrates the Africanist improvisational aesthetic into her lively, detailed picture of Bull's world, realigning a landscape that has too long suffered from ethnocentric skew.""—Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance

""This is an extremely important book. By adopting Richard Bull's tactic of personifying 'the dance' as if it were a speaking, thinking person, Foster's book forces us to think about dance as a way of knowing, and about the ways of knowing that will be most useful for our understanding of dance as a social practice and a social force.""—George Lipsitz, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego